Pinnace

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  • noun. A light boat propelled by sails or oars, formerly used as a tender for merchant and war vessels.
  • noun. Any of various kinds of ship's boats.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. Nautical: A small vessel, generally with two masts rigged like those of a schooner, and capable of being propelled by oars; a galley: so called because built of pine wood; poetically, any light sailing-vessel.
  • noun. A large double-banked ship's boat.
  • noun. A procuress; a prostitute.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. A small vessel propelled by sails or oars, formerly employed as a tender, or for coast defence; -- called originally, spynace or spyne.
  • noun. A man-of-war's boat.
  • noun. A procuress; a pimp.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A light boat, traditionally propelled by sails, but may also be a rowboat. Pinnaces are usually messenger boats, carrying messages among the larger ships of a fleet.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. a boat for communication between ship and shore
    • Word Usage
    "An 'I'd ha' done it, too, only the pinnace from the flagship was just comin 'alongside."
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    boat  
    Hyponym
    Words that are more specific
    gig  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    barge  brig  brigantine  cutter  felucca  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    pimp  procuress  
    variant
    spynace  spyne  
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